List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their final major league at bat

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Ted Williams hit the 521st home run of his major-league career in his final at bat. Ted Williams 1954 Bowman.jpg
Ted Williams hit the 521st home run of his major-league career in his final at bat.

This is a list of the Major League Baseball (MLB) players who have hit a home run in their final major league at bat. The feat was first accomplished in 1890 by Buck West, and most recently by Stephen Vogt in 2022.

Contents

Paul Gillespie and John Miller are the only players in MLB history to hit home runs in their first and last major-league at bats. Bobby Kielty and David Ross both hit their final home runs in a World Series game—Kielty hit his for the Boston Red Sox in the series-clinching Game 4 of the 2007 World Series, while Ross's occurred in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series and was an important contribution to ending the 108 year title drought of the Chicago Cubs. Mickey Cochrane and Ted Williams are the only players on this list who are inductees of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Players

Many players in the below list hit a home run the final time they batted in the last game of their professional career—that is, at the professional level, the player never batted again or played in another game—one notable example being Ted Williams. [2] However, circumstances may vary—for example, Mickey Cochrane homered in his final at bat (hence his inclusion in the below list) but was hit by a pitch in his final plate appearance. [3] Because pitchers bat less often than position players, especially since the introduction of the designated hitter, some pitchers in the below list played in many major-league games after their final at bat; for example, Tim Stoddard, who homered in his final at bat in June 1986, pitched in the major leagues through July 1989. [4] In other cases, a player in the below list had a very brief major-league career, but continued playing professionally at the minor-league level—one example is Chris Jelic, who played in only four major-league games, all late in the 1990 season, then continued playing professionally through 1993. [5]

Note: Baseball Almanac, the primary source for this section, lists and numbers players who have accomplished the feat during regular-season games, and provides separate commentary on players who have done so in postseason games. [6]

Key
†Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
#Denotes player was a pitcher

Regular season

No.PlayerCareer total [lower-alpha 1] DateTeam
1 Buck West 3September 18, 1890 Cleveland Spiders
2 Frank O'Connor #1August 7, 1893 Philadelphia Phillies
3 Hercules Burnett 2September 29, 1895 Louisville Colonels
4 Ed Scott #2August 3, 1901 Cleveland Naps
5 Chick Stahl 36October 6, 1906 Boston Americans
6 Del Gainer 14September 30, 1922 St. Louis Cardinals
7 Mahlon Higbee 1October 1, 1922 New York Giants
8 Walt Kinney #2May 9, 1923 Philadelphia Athletics
9 Johnny Schulte 14September 20, 1932 Boston Braves
10 Mickey Cochrane †119May 25, 1937 Detroit Tigers
11 George Jumonville 1May 20, 1941 Philadelphia Phillies
12 Paul Gillespie 6September 29, 1945 Chicago Cubs
13 Bert Haas 22August 26, 1951 Chicago White Sox
14 Joe Frazier 10September 30, 1956 Baltimore Orioles
15 Marv Blaylock 15September 28, 1957 Philadelphia Phillies
16 Ron Samford 5September 7, 1959 Washington Senators
17 Ted Williams †521September 28, 1960 Boston Red Sox
18 Don Gile 3September 30, 1962 Boston Red Sox
19 Ed Hobaugh #1September 2, 1963 Washington Senators
20 Tony Kubek 57October 3, 1965 New York Yankees
21 John Miller 2September 23, 1969 Los Angeles Dodgers
22 Ken McMullen 156September 14, 1977 Milwaukee Brewers
23 Kevin Pasley 1October 1, 1978 Seattle Mariners
24 Mike Cubbage 34October 3, 1981 New York Mets
25 Joe Rudi 179October 3, 1982 Oakland Athletics
26 Tony Brewer 1September 30, 1984 Los Angeles Dodgers
27 Eddie Miller 1September 30, 1984 San Diego Padres
28 Willie Aikens 110April 27, 1985 Toronto Blue Jays
29 Rufino Linares 11October 6, 1985 California Angels
30 Tim Stoddard #1June 18, 1986 San Diego Padres
31 Chris Jelic 1October 3, 1990 New York Mets
32 Bobby Rose 5May 19, 1992 California Angels
33 Glenn Braggs 70September 10, 1992 Cincinnati Reds
34 Chico Walker 17October 3, 1993 New York Mets
35 Jeff Tackett 7August 2, 1994 Baltimore Orioles
36 Gregg Olson #1April 20, 1998 Arizona Diamondbacks
37 Tony Phillips 160August 15, 1999 Oakland Athletics
38 Matt Mieske 56September 30, 2000 Arizona Diamondbacks
39 Albert Belle 381October 1, 2000 Baltimore Orioles
40 Dusty Allen 2October 1, 2000 Detroit Tigers
41 Juan Díaz 1June 23, 2002 Boston Red Sox
42 Ray Lankford 238October 3, 2004 St. Louis Cardinals
43 Todd Zeile 253October 3, 2004 New York Mets
44 Curtis Thigpen 1September 26, 2008 Toronto Blue Jays
45 Gustavo Chacín #1May 31, 2010 Houston Astros
46 Jim Edmonds 393September 21, 2010 Cincinnati Reds
47 Denis Phipps 1September 23, 2012 Cincinnati Reds
48 Adam Kennedy 80September 7, 2012 Los Angeles Dodgers
49 Juan Rivera 132October 3, 2012 Los Angeles Dodgers
50 Ramón Hernández 169June 12, 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers
51 Chad Tracy 86September 28, 2013 Washington Nationals
52 Francisco Peguero 1September 29, 2013 San Francisco Giants
53 Nyjer Morgan 12May 11, 2014 Cleveland Indians
54 Brad Snyder 2June 22, 2014 Texas Rangers
55 Nick Evans 10July 27, 2014 Arizona Diamondbacks
56 Ramón Santiago 30September 27, 2014 Cincinnati Reds
57 Corey Hart 162June 21, 2015 Pittsburgh Pirates
58 Dan Uggla 235October 3, 2015 Washington Nationals
59 Darrell Ceciliani 2May 18, 2017 Toronto Blue Jays
60 Adonis García 29October 1, 2017 Miami Marlins
61 Bruce Maxwell 5June 2, 2018 Oakland Athletics
62 Tyson Ross #2September 13, 2018 St. Louis Cardinals
63 Ian Kinsler [lower-alpha 2] 257August 12, 2019 San Diego Padres
64 Ian Desmond 181September 28, 2019 Colorado Rockies
65 Welington Castillo 98September 29, 2019 Chicago White Sox
66 Ronny Rodríguez 19September 29, 2019 Detroit Tigers
67 Khris Davis 221October 3, 2021 Oakland Athletics
68 Jason Castro 97June 29, 2022 Houston Astros
69 Stephen Vogt 82October 5, 2022 Oakland Athletics

Source: [6]

Postseason

No.PlayerCareer total [lower-alpha 1] DateTeamSeries / GameRef.
1 Chuck Carr 13October 3, 1997 Houston Astros 1997 NLDS / Game 3 [9]
2 Troy O'Leary 127October 15, 2003 Chicago Cubs 2003 NLCS / Game 7 [10]
3 Tom Wilson 15October 5, 2004 Los Angeles Dodgers 2004 NLDS / Game 1 [11]
4 Bobby Kielty 53October 28, 2007 Boston Red Sox 2007 World Series / Game 4 [12]
5 David Ross 106November 2, 2016 Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series / Game 7 [13]
6 Russell Martin 191October 6, 2019 Los Angeles Dodgers 2019 NLDS / Game 3 [14]

Source: [6]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Career total" figures refer to regular-season home runs only; home runs hit in all-star contests or postseason games are excluded.
  2. ↑ Kinsler played in 1888 regular-season games, predominantly as a second baseman—he made one appearance as a pitcher, which was the final game of his career, in which he hit a home run in his final at bat. [7] [8]

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